Backstory:

Are you familiar with the tale of the Endless Forest?

...No?

...Well dear reader, I recommend you listen closely lest you suffer a rather unfortunate fate...

It was perhaps three thousand years before your birth, on this very evening that a young man found himself yet again at the mercy of his village elders...

A prankster and a thief he was, and this time he was being scolded for chasing the village's sheep out of the confines of their pen and into the nearby forest. One of the elders stood up and proposed a plan.

"As punishment you shall retrieve the flock from the forest and once you return...

Backstory: I wasn't always a deer. I used to be a human that lived by a mysterious forest. The old people of my town would warn the young children "Don't go into the forest! For once you enter, you shall never return!" There were many legends of the forest, ranging from creepy ghost stories to tales of carefree majestic creatures similar to centaurs. Never-the-less all of these folktales warned the children to steer clear of the forest. I guess the warning never really worked on me.

It was a cool summer's evening and I was walking back home from school. At school I was bullied by students and teachers alike, and at home I was bullied by my auntie (my parents vanished and were assumed to be dead when I was three).